#novel
Stephen Markley - Ohio
Je viens de le terminer, c'est brut de dĂ©coffrage, passionnant et superbement bien Ă©crit đđđ
(Je suis toujours effarée de voir que la religion est toujours aussi présente aux Usa, que l'on peut tomber dans la misÚre parce qu'on s'est cassé une jambe mais que l'on a peur d'une réforme qui octroie la sécurité sociale pour tous... )
#vendredilecture #roman #novel #Markley #lecture #reading #littérature #literature
Comicautorin Ika Sperling
âIch mag das Wort Schwurbler nichtâ
Von Nina Apin
Ika Sperlings Vater driftete in VerschwörungserzÀhlungen ab. Wie sie das an ihre Grenzen brachte, verarbeitete sie in einer Graphic Novel.
Schwerpunkt: Verschwörungsmythen und Corona
#taz #tageszeitung #wochentaz #Verschwörungsideologie #QAnon #Graphic #Novel #Comic #Familie
Meanwhile... had a revelation last night - and have a new favorite actress....
As I was being drawn to the passion and accent both.... watching episode 6 of A Gentleman in Moscow, very powerful, where Sophia (daughter of Nina) has a near-fatal accident and both the Count and 'the actress' have their lives torn apart....
This is the actress playing the actress in the series (Gentleman In Moscow). Suddenly clicked, she seemed familiar - though far from comedy, soap operas, or her "Queen of Screams" horror movie days.
Fantastic range and maturation....
No, not a Bette Davis or Dame Judi Dench (Shakespearian level), but warm, 'genuine', and did I say, 'versatile'. Great in my 2 favorite mini-series, the grand Gentleman in Moscow, AND the very funny, upbeat, zany & prescient,
Brain Dead
#GentlemanInMoscow #BrainDead #actress #MaryElizabethWinstead #film #television #literature #novel
Some ebooks I've read since I moved up to Linux Mint 21
- Red Team Blues, by Cory Doctorow
- The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions, by Kerry Greenwood
- The Every, by Dave Eggers
- Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi
- All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
- Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells
- Rogue Protocol, by Martha Wells
- Exit Strategy, by Martha Wells
- Obsolescence, by Martha Wells
- Compulsory, by Martha Wells
- Home, Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory, by Martha Wells
- Network Effect, by Martha Wells
- Fugitive Telemetry, by Martha Wells
- The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal
- The Power, by Naomi Alderman
- The Lost Cause, by Cory Doctorow
- The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
- The Bezzle, by Cory Doctorow
- Lock In, by John Scalzi
- Tracers in the Dark, by Andy Greenberg
I have only listed stories I can recommend. They are listed in the order that I read them.
I'm still reading Tracers. I can also recommend his Sand Worm. These are non-fiction.
All the others in the list are fiction.
All the Wells stories listed here are part of The Murderbot Diaries.
The Greenwood book is part of her Phryne Fisher series. I have read all 22 Phryne Fisher novels. Great fun.
The Every is a sequel to The Circle. Don't bother with the movie of The Circle. It has a radically different ending that ruins it.
I can also recommend all the Lady Astronaut stories of Kowal.
Cory is probably my favorite writer these days, if I have one. I certainly read a lot of what he writes.
A few of these are part of series that I haven't finished yet.
I'll probably read System Collapse (Murderbot) next, followed by Head On (sequel to Lock In).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Earth%27s_Past (the Three Body series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phryne_Fisher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scalzi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Greenberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Robinette_Kowal
#andy-greenberg #kerry-greenwood #mary-robinette-kowal #martha-wells #cory-doctorow #john-scalzi #fiction #novels #novel #ebook #ebooks
Interesting on so many levels, so I'm posting it again ....
Salad Mug
#Sci-Fi #Novel #A_tad_sad đ€
Comic âBerichte aus der Ukraineâ
Butscha im Schnee
Von Ralph Trommer
Der Comiczeichner Igort erzĂ€hlt in seinen Zeichnungen vom dĂŒsteren Alltag in dem Land. Auch das Schicksal russischer Soldaten kommt darin vor.
Schwerpunkt: Krieg in der Ukraine
#taz #tageszeitung #wochentaz #Comic #Graphic #Novel #Ukraine-Konflikt #Ukraine #Wladimir #Putin
Cory is serializing the first chapter of Red Team Blues
to be released on April 25.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/17/have-you-tried-not-spying/
BTW, Cory has already read this aloud himself into his podcast.
Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow Podcast starts at 9:21
The audio book of this novel is read by Wil Wheaton. Here's part of it recorded on Wheaton's phone as he reads into the mic for the audio book. This is also from Cory's podcast
[The Cory Doctorow Podcast is at https://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast]
Here's the first installment.
One evening, I got a wild hair and drove all night from San Diego to Menlo Park. Why Menlo Park? It had both a triple-ÂMichelin-Âstar place and a dear old friend both within spitting distance of the Walmart parking lot, where I could park the Unsalted Hash, leaving me free to drink as much as I cared to and still be able to walk home and crawl into bed.\
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Iâd done a job that turned out better than Iâd expectedâÂwell enough that I was set for the year if I lived carefully. I didnât want to live carefully. The age for that was long past. I wanted to live it up. Thereâd be more work. I wanted to celebrate.\
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Truth be told, I also didnât want to contemplate the possibility that, at the age of sixty-Âseven, the new work might stop coming in. Silicon Valley hates old people, but that was okay, because I hated Silicon Valley. Professionally, that is.\
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Getting close to Bakersfield, I pulled the Unsalted Hash into a rest stop to stretch my legs and check my phone. After a putter around the picnic tables and vending machine, I walked the perimeter of my foolish and ungainly and luxurious tour bus, checking the tires and making sure the cargo compartments were dogged and locked. I climbed back in, checked my sludge levels and decided they were low enough that I could use my own toilet, then, finally, having forced myself to wait, sat on one of the buttery leather chairs and checked my messages.\
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Thatâs how I learned that Danny Lazer was looking for me. He was working the usual channelsâÂDMs from people who I tended to check in with when I was looking for workâÂand it put a shine on my evening, because sixty-Âseven or no, there was always work for someone with my skill set. Danny Lazer had a problem with his Trustlesscoin keys, which relied on the best protected cryptographic secrets in the world (nominally). So I messaged him. One rest stop later, just past Gilroy, I got his reply. He was eager to see me. Would I call on him at his home in Palo Alto?\
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My pathetic little ego swelled up at his eagerness. I told him I had a big dinner planned the next night, but Iâd see him the morning after. Truth be told, putting off a man as important as Danny Lazer, even for twenty-Âfour hours, made me feel more important still. I could tell from his reply that the delay chafed at him. I felt petty, but not so much so that I canceled my dinner. My dear old friend was a lively sort, and it was possible weâd walk from the restaurant to her place for an hour or three before I returned to the Walmart parking lot.\
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Dinner didnât disappoint, and neither did the fun and games afterward. It was a very nice capstone to a very successful job, and a very good prelude to another job for one of the nicest rich men (or richest nice men) in Silicon Valley.\
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Danny was old Silicon Valley, a guy who started his own UUCP host so he could help distribute the alt hierarchy and once helped Tim May bring a load of unlicensed firearms across state lines from a Nevada gun show. Heâd lived like a monk for decades, writing cryptographic code and fighting with the NSA over it, and had mortgaged his parentsâ house back east to keep himself and a couple of programmers in business in a tiny office for a decade while he and Galit lived in a thirty-Âfoot motor home that needed engine tuning once a month just so it could trundle from one parking space to the next.\
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It was a bet that there would come a day when the internetâs innocence would end and people would want privacy from each other and their governments, and he kept doubling down on that bet through every boom and bust, living on ramen and open cereal boxes from the used food store, refusing to part with any equity except to promising hackers whoâd join him, and then the bet paid off, and he became Daniel Moses Lazar, with a 75 percent stake in Keypairs LLC, whose crypto-Âlibraries and workflow tools were the much-Âballyhooed picks and shovels of the next internet revolution. Keypairs wasnât the first unicorn in Silicon Valley, but it was the first one that never took a dime in venture capital and whose sole angels were Dannyâs parents back in Jersey, to whom Danny sent at least $100 million before they made him stop, insisting that they had nothing more they wanted in this world.\
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Galit picked out a big place in Twin Peaks that you could see Alcatraz from on a clear day, gutted it to the foundation slab, bare studs, and ceiling joists, completely rebuilt it while being mindful of both Dannyâs specification for networking receptacles throughout, and Galitâs encyclopedic knowledge of the Arts and Crafts Movement. One day, as she was bringing out some Mendocino grig and a cheese board for the two of them to enjoy from their half-Âbuilt porch, she gasped, complained of pain in both arms, then her chest, and then she collapsed and was dead before the ambulance arrived.\
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It had been a good marriage: twenty-Âtwo years and no kids, because there was nowhere in their old RV to put them unless they wanted to hang them from the rafters. Sheâd been his rock while heâd built up Keypairs, but heâd been hers, too, rubbing her feet and helping her deal with the endless humiliations that a woman doing administrative work in Silicon Valley had to put up with. He didnât see it that way, though: after he took possession of her ashes, all he could talk about was how theyâd wasted nearly a quarter of a century chasing a fortune that didnât do either of them a bit of good, and it had cost them the time they could have spent in a beach shack in the Baja while he did two hours of contract work a month to pay for machete sharpening and new hammocks once a year.\
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A procession of Silicon Valleyâs most powerful leaders and most respected technologists filed through the Palo Alto teardown theyâd bought to perch in while the Twin Peaks project was underway. People who werenât merely wealthy but famous for their vision, their sensitivity, their insight. They argued with him about his crushing regrets and tried to tell him how much good heâd done, both for Galit and for the world, but he was unreachable. A consensus emerged among the Friends of Danny that he was not long for this world. Not that he was going to kill himself or anything but that he would simply stop caring about living, and then nature would take its course.\
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They were rightâÂgiven all facts in evidence, that was a foregone conclusion. But there was one hidden variable: Sethuramani Balakrishnan, who was twenty-Âfive, brilliant, and had made a series of lateral moves within Keypairs: customer support, then compliance, and finally Dannyâs PA, a job she was vastly overqualified for.\
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She helped him flip the house, then to turn Keypairs over to a management committee carefully balanced between hackers whoâd been with Danny since the PDP-Â8 days, people with real managerial experience and proven experience growing companies and running big teams. He got rid of all the shares heâd taken in over the years to sit on advisory boards and stuck everything into Vanguard index-Âtracker fundsâÂthe ones that didnât buy a lot of tech stocks.\
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As far as anyone could tell, Sethu didnât try to talk him out of any of this, just offered efficient, intelligent, and supremely organized help in getting Dannyâs lifeâs work out of a realm in which it had to be actively managed by someone with Dannyâs incredible drive, insight, and technical knowledge, and into an investment vehicle managed by an overgrown spreadsheet, one that would multiply his money ahead of the CPI, year on year, until someone built a guillotine on his lawn.\
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What Sethu did talk him into was buying a condo around the corner from that Palo Alto teardown, an eight-Âstory place, quiet, built on the grave of another Palo Alto teardown that had been snapped up by property developers in the glory days before NIMBY planning ended all high-Âdensity infill within fifty miles of Stanford.
#cory #cory-doctorow #red-team-blues #novel #fiction #audio #mp3 #audio-book #wil-wheaton
Originally #banned in the United States for its graphic #sexual content, Henry Millerâs classic #novel, Tropic of Cancer (1934), follows an unnamed narrator on his travels throughout Paris in the 1930s. The narrator is now widely accepted as being Miller himself, the book based on his own encounters in the French capital. The book is considered one of the #most #important #novels of the twentieth century. Best known for #challenging conventional #restraints on free speech in literature, Millerâs works are graphic and reflective in nature.
Now hailed as an #American #classic Tropic of Cancer, #Henry #Millerâs masterpiece, was #banned as #obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a #historic #court #ruling that #changed American #censorship standards, ushering in a new era of #freedom and #frankness in modern #literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Millerâs famed mixture of memoir and fiction...
Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller that has been described as "notorious for its candid sexuality" and as responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature." It was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France, but this edition was #banned in the United #States. ... . In 1964, the U.S. #Supreme #Court #declared the book #non-obscene. It is regarded as an important work of #20th-century #literature.
'The Man Who Fell To Earth' graphic novel: exclusive first look
'The Man Who Fell to Earth: The Official Movie Adaptationâ is published by Titan Comics and will be available from October 25.
#novel #comic #DavidBowie #filmadaptations
'The Man Who Fell To Earth' graphic novel: exclusive first look
ref/universes/jenkinsverse/essential_reading_order - HFY
Btw .. i'm still alive .... i'm just tightly bonded to the #Deathworlders i just discovered.......
I love a good #scifi #story ..... and fuck the what, it's a entire fucking huge universe to discover out there.... whaaaa ;)
if you wanna read it right - as it is a #modern #distributet #piece of #novel #art - look here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/wiki/ref/universes/jenkinsverse/essential_reading_order/
Otherwise it's home is found here: https://deathworlders.com/
Again .. it's fscking insane .. and so cool. ;)
#RandomShit for sure!! ;)
Some Favorite Novel Series
First: the Phryne Fisher novels of Kerry Greenwood
Others please mention one or more of your favorite series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phryne_Fisher
I've read all of these. There was a TV series based on these called Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. There was also, more recently, a movie: Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears. the TV series Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries isn't really up to the same standard. Not horrible, but not great.
Cocaine Blues (1989) aka Death by Misadventure (US) aka Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates (UK)
Flying Too High (1990)
Murder on the Ballarat Train (1991)
Death at Victoria Dock (1992)
The Green Mill Murder (1993)
Blood and Circuses (1994)
Ruddy Gore (1995)
Urn Burial (1996)
Raisins and Almonds (1997)
Death Before Wicket (1999)
Away with the Fairies (2001)
Murder in Montparnasse (2002)
The Castlemaine Murders (2003)
Queen of the Flowers (2004)
Death by Water (2005)
Murder in the Dark (2006)
Murder on a Midsummer Night (2008)
Dead Man's Chest (2010)
Unnatural Habits (2012)
Murder and Mendelssohn (2013)
Death in Daylesford (2020)
#mystery #mysteries #novel #novels #series #australia #kerry-greenwood #detective-fiction #phryne-fisher #fiction
Les avez-vous lus ?
N° 3 de notre série, une talentueuse écrivaine dont nous saluons l'imagination et la qualité constante du travail livre aprÚs livre : Carole Martinez !
PassĂ©e par le thĂ©Ăątre et l'enseignement du français, Carole Martinez, avec plusieurs romans dĂ©jĂ publiĂ©s Ă son actif, nous enchante Ă chaque nouvelle parution. Ses rĂ©cits, sortes de contes pour adultes, mĂȘlent toujours un soupçon de fantastique et de magie Ă la rĂ©alitĂ©. Pour son premier roman, elle s'est inspirĂ©e des lĂ©gendes espagnoles que lui racontait sa grand-mĂšre et y fait encore rĂ©fĂ©rence, dans une continuitĂ© cohĂ©rente, dans son dernier paru. Sa plume, parfois dĂ©licate et rĂȘveuse, parfois cruelle, toujours infiniment poĂ©tique, nous embarque dans des histoires de relations impossibles, de familles compliquĂ©es, de malĂ©dictions, d'amours extrĂȘmes et de secrets.
Je n'ai pas encore eu le plaisir de tout lire, mais si j'ai une petite prĂ©fĂ©rence Ă Ă©mettre, mon choix se porte sur son magnifique Du Domaine des Murmures, un livre dont le destin de l'hĂ©roĂŻne m'a profondĂ©ment touchĂ© ! Au XIIe siĂšcle, une jeune fille refuse le mariage arrangĂ© par son pĂšre et dĂ©clare qu'elle veut vouer sa vie Ă Dieu. Furieux, le paternel construit une cellule prĂšs de la chapelle et l'y enferme. D'abord enchantĂ©e par sa nouvelle condition de recluse toute entiĂšre dĂ©diĂ©e Ă la priĂšre, un douloureux dilemme viendra bientĂŽt la ronger jusqu'aux trĂ©fonds du cĆur. Quelle merveille que ce livre ! Son dernier paru, Les Roses Fauves, fait un clin d'Ćil au CĆur Cousu et nous entraĂźne dans une histoire de malĂ©diction familiale se transmettant de mĂšre en fille, contenue dans des roses envahissantes au parfum ensorcelant. En parallĂšle, Martinez se met en scĂšne Ă travers un personnage qui lui sert d'alter ego et qui s'installe dans la rĂ©gion en quĂȘte d'inspiration pour son prochain roman. TrĂšs rĂ©ussi Ă©galement !
#litterature #books #novel #roman #carolemartinez #spiritualite #religion #mysticisme #malediction #amour #fantastique #magie #dilemme #lecture #poesie
Les avez-vous lus ?
N°2 de la sĂ©rie sur les Ă©crivain(e)s dont j'adore le travail et que je vous encourage de tout cĆur Ă lire : Jacques Abeille (1942-2022), poĂšte, novelliste et romancier français, Ă©galement connu sous les pseudonymes de LĂ©o Barthe et Bartelby (pour la partie Ă©rotique de son Ćuvre).
Jacques Abeille n'est pas seulement un Ă©crivain. Artiste de la mouvance surrĂ©aliste, il fut aussi professeur d'arts plastiques et peintre. Sa sensibilitĂ© aux Beaux-Arts, son intĂ©rĂȘt pour la magie de la crĂ©ation et l'aspect esthĂ©tique des choses se ressentent beaucoup dans ses Ă©crits.
Son chef-d'Ćuvre le plus connu est une saga de plusieurs tomes, Le Cycle des ContrĂ©es, qu'inaugure Les Jardins Statuaires, paru chez Le Tripode. On y rencontre un explorateur entreprenant un long voyage pour consigner dans des archives ce qu'il apprend et comprend des contrĂ©es Ă©trangĂšres qu'il traverse, leurs mĆurs et coutumes. Il arrive bientĂŽt sur des terres organisĂ©es en grands domaines agricoles oĂč les habitants cultivent... des statues. Un monde qu'il sent sur le dĂ©clin, car les temps changeront bientĂŽt. Des envahisseurs se rapprochent et avec leur arrivĂ©e prochaine, c'est peut-ĂȘtre un mode de vie qui va disparaĂźtre. Dans un style poĂ©tique et mĂ©lancolique, Jacques Abeille nous plonge en immersion dans ces lieux Ă©tranges Ă la dĂ©couverte des locaux et de leur fascinant savoir-faire. Son personnage, un outsider, est le double du lecteur qui observe tout ceci d'un Ćil extĂ©rieur et tente de le comprendre, s'Ă©merveille de voir de gigantesques statues sortir de terre, s'Ă©tonne de la place faite aux femmes dans cette sociĂ©tĂ© et sent monter un sentiment d'irrĂ©mĂ©diabilitĂ© face Ă ce qui, contrairement aux figures de pierre ou de marbre, n'est pas vouĂ© Ă durer. Petit bonus : la couverture de ce premier tome est illustrĂ©e par François Schuiten, on ne boude pas notre plaisir devant ce bel objet. Bref, une merveille !
#books #jacquesabeille #letripode #schuiten #statues #art #beaux-arts #litterature #novel #roman #imaginaire #fantastique #cycledescontrees #poesie
Les avez-vous lus ?
Je reprends ici une sĂ©rie de posts que jâai Ă©crite pour ma librairie car il y a peut-ĂȘtre parmi vous des fĂ©rus de littĂ©rature et plus on partage, plus on augmente nos chances de dĂ©couvrir des textes extraordinaires ! Il sâagit dâauteurs ou dâautrices dont les Ćuvres mâont marquĂ©e et touchĂ©e Ă tel point que des annĂ©es plus tard, je me souviens encore des Ă©motions procurĂ©es par ces rĂ©cits. Pas forcĂ©ment du dĂ©tail de lâhistoire, plus de lâĂ©tat dans lesquels ils mâont plongĂ©e.
Il ouvre le bal, le n°1 est le merveilleux Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970), auteur norvĂ©gien issu dâune famille paysanne qui devint lâun des auteurs phares de son pays grĂące Ă sa plume sensible et onirique. Vesaas, en fantastique conteur, nâa pas son pareil pour imaginer des situations Ă©tranges, Ă mi-chemin entre le rĂȘve et la rĂ©alitĂ©, nous plongeant dans une atmosphĂšre poĂ©tique et brumeuse. Ses personnages ont souvent une façon bien Ă eux de voir le monde, en dĂ©calage avec le commun de leurs semblables ou les adultes qui les entourent (il laisse en effet une grande place Ă la figure de lâadolescent dans ses histoires, un Ăąge oĂč lâon explore les frontiĂšres et oĂč lâon cherche sa voie). Cet Ă©lĂ©ment rĂ©current nourrit lâĂ©motion dans son Ă©criture, tout comme la prĂ©sence puissante de la nature, un lieu oĂč seule la neige est tĂ©moin des pactes et des secrets qui y naissent.
Parmi ses Ćuvres les plus connues, citons Les Oiseaux et Palais de Glace, que jâai absolument adorĂ©s ! Les Oiseaux vient de ressortir dans une nouvelle traduction, que je nâai pas lue car je suis restĂ©e sur celle initiale de RĂ©gis Boyer. Si certain(e)s ont lu les deux, nâhĂ©sitez pas Ă me dire ce que vous en pensez. Je vous invite de tout cĆur Ă dĂ©couvrir ce roman magnifique qui vous restera longtemps en tĂȘte et son hĂ©ros inoubliable, Mattis, qui cherche dans la contemplation des oiseaux un rĂ©confort face Ă la peur de la perte.
#litterature #norvege #vesaas #oiseaux #roman #norway #novel #libraire #livres #books #scandinavie
